TY - JOUR AU - Oliveira, Karla A. AU - Pinter, Adriano AU - Medina-Sanchez, Aaron AU - Boppana, Venkata D. AU - Wikel, Stephen K. AU - Saito, Tais B. AU - Shelite, Thomas AU - Blanton, Lucas AU - Popov, Vsevolod AU - Teel, Pete D. AU - Walker, David H. AU - Galvao, Marcio A.M. AU - Mafra, Claudio AU - Bouyer, Donald H. T1 - Amblyomma imitator Ticks as Vectors of Rickettsia rickettsii, Mexico T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 8 SP - 1282 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Real-time PCR of Amblyomma imitator tick egg masses obtained in Nuevo Leon State, Mexico, identified a Rickettsia species. Sequence analyses of 17-kD common antigen and outer membrane protein A and B gene fragments showed to it to be R. rickettsii, which suggested a potential new vector for this bacterium. KW - Ticks KW - Rickettsia rickettsii KW - rickettsia KW - Amblyomma imitator KW - Rocky Mountain spotted fever KW - ultrastructure KW - vector-borne infections KW - Mexico KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1608.100231 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/8/10-0231_article ER - End of Reference